Show am aalt cam 0 mar J K AC I 1 ILL b L Dra by pay walters by ELMO SCOTT WATSON HAT Is fame the dictionary the court ol of lust resort W in questions of definition W says it la is renow re nonn fi cele celebrity brRy that which elouies onos name to bo be remembered 1 and in that last synonym iles tho the joker for vamo F nine Is n cupric loun goddess who often loves to trick those whom silo elevates to a position of often she ilves gives generously with one hand and with tile the other suddenly takes tier her gift WHY site she promises that names will not bo forgotten so they poor fools burn out their lives to win renown and then they tacy learn that tile tho jokes jokob on thain their names are remembered but they themselves aro forgotten I 1 inventors find the like rcck fem to ile be her favorite dupes in tills this electrical age arid and especially in ILI these duis of almost universal uso use of tile the radio everyone uses teetering thet the terms ering watt volt ohm and ampere but how many or of us ui know anything about jiles james watt of scotland count alas st t indro volta of italy george simon abla of germany or andro andre marle ampere pere of lil france rance at least their names survive tn in these common words even if they them themselves selves ore are forgot forgotten teu but how about that lint modern prometheus who do it possible for us ua to to do evelly with tho the clumsy old method of starting tart lne a fare with flint filat and acl how many illy persons can name tho 1110 inan man who invented the Hio modern deru lua very few probably yet it was only ninety years ago that janos TrI llyl a hungarian an ch chelliot ellist was successful istle where hla his professor had failed anti by using instead of sulphur produced 0 u match that flared satisfactorily fac lie sold his invention for about 3 0 in ili ISIO IS IO 3 lie he founded ti a match factory and seemed to ila be on the roud road to great wealth then the hungarian rf revolution two years later stopped stopie d his work isora lie he died tn in poverty lo in 1895 5 we ve cherish the silhouette 1 ot of our ancestors tors ni as precious heirlooms heir looms ho because unless our were wealthy enough to to have their these silhouettes are the only tit in waldi fell alaj albo Us un any ally idea of how they looked but wo L law nothing nt at till ill about I 1 do de silhouette a french minister of finance ti nalice except that dimmei wo we may have heard that bi had it n reputation for salim oness we vv herll cherish old daguerreotypes of our grandparents or great grand parents which toll hll us even een better thitu foes docs 1 n silhouette liow how they looked but do wo ivo ever think of at U deguerre guerre the frenchman who tn in 1839 gave to tile world this first form of modern photography its AS wo we now know ill it not much I 1 when it rains we wa alap on a mackintosh but were not likely to stop even evea for a moment to bo grateful to charles mackintosh of Blan blanchetter blanchester chester england phoso whoso invention of 0 waterproof cloth makes it possible for or ug ua to keep dry wo motor smoothly over macadam ronda roads with never a thought for john london macadam who won fann fame 7 us its a rond road engineer in scotland xong along tile way we stop for a san sandwich divich at same some roadside rondyl do stand because liko tho the karl hari of wo we want a light luttell lunch which can be raten eaten with comfort da well na as impend it if something goes wrong with the car wo we open thy thil tool box and perhaps take out a still ton wrench to fix it IL yes it nuin man named willson invented this handy tool hut but who was waa he an anyway away and so 80 it ROCS goes on long railroad journeys wo we ride in comfort in pull tuan lunn cars and ian doubtful if we ever give a thought ought th to georgo mortimer ullman pullman the new york cabinetmaker who first transformed an old day coach into the first sleeping Ble car wo we may have a mansard root roof on our house but wo we dont know that its called that because it a french architect named Allin mansard sard helped circumvent en an old paris law that tried to limit the height of houses by specifying the distance from tho ground nt fit which all roots roofs should begin nor Is the caprice of fume fame confined tu to choso to whom we should ile be most grateful because they have given us ua useful or indispensable articles of e everyday every er day yd use did you ever say eay 1 I certainly am going to hand him alna a wallop I 1 wallop Is n perfectly good word in the english blazt illge and tn guillar to everyone but who remembers now nov n certain sir john wallop a british general who inflicted indicted so many defeats upon the french that lets wallop them V became a byword by word in england it if you ever have to take a ride in ili the black marta maria it may bo be conle bomo comfort comfor t to you to meditate upon the thought that you know why ita go BO called and that the policeman who ar restad you so on oil tile tho way to tile station you might entertain him with the following historical facts in the old colonial days martil maria I 1 loo u kept a sailors boarding binuso in boston bosto it A woman of great stature filature and strength sho ile not lot only had the whole ln lawless i element clement of her part ut of town in ili awe of tier her but silo sha also helped the tha authorities author alea keep the beam it 18 1 said bald that at one time she ehe unassisted took three riotous halloin to the lock up end and whenever a particularly troublesome person was to bo be subdued everybody immediately mediately lul said eald send for or black marla maria 11 so bo it appears that ahe lie was not one to ici let lei george do ILI 11 in ID that respect she was different fro from ni loul XII of franco france although himself a strong ruler he was fortunate to in having at prime minister who was waa a clever executive and en an able manager georges d dAm holso was his name and as loula learned more and more to depend upon him to perform disagreeable tasks wre and more wail wag the sovereign of france given to saying baying quo que georges to ie fasse let george do it itt 1 try this sentence on your neighbor when a man in defiance of the bone try dry laws gets filled up with gin hes likely to get reckless and let ler er go gallagher ho he pro probably babli y will understand what you moan mean all right but ask aak him who was ilono done and rickey rackey and Gallag herl it if he cant answer tell him athla ahls john bone was formerly sheriff of chippe wa county M midi ich and through rl rigid g I 1 d enforcement of the early it liquor q bor laws lawa in that state madl made his county extremely arid so when the legislature passed the next antl anti liquor law it was named ahe the hone done dry bill col joseph K X rickey of fulton mo invented the tha drink called a gin gallagher first name unknown was waa c city ity mars marshal it at of harrodsburg Harrods burp burg ky during a race meeting in tipton county he was the tha driver of a fast trotting nare entered in ili a race by judge deaver of morgan county which was looked upon OH a certain winner but some of the sporting fraternity hoping to catch tho alio judge unaware imported Jm ported a famous fast trotter and entered the horse horsa in tile lie race at the end of the farst halt mile the two horses came down the stretch neck and neck whereupon tile the judge shouted let ler er go Gallag herl gallagher Gallag hor loosed the reins the mure rushed forward and won the race by 1 11 dozen lengths what Is tame fume judging from all these examples fame ts Is a ila name me and nothing more personified fame faine Is the goddess godde of caprice she promises men that their namoa will not be forgotten nud and they think bhe Is promising the them that Y will not be forgotten or she bhe way may be the goddess of jokes our childrens children and their children after theiu lofty be rid ing around in ili a ford anti and to thorn them heary will tic be just a common mani inai umme for I 1 ame lovos her little jule joke even a ford joke |